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Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Bannari Amman institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, India Department of Aeronautical department, Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, India.
AbstractTechnology has the enemy of nature in one way .But sometimes technologies do come out as an exception to the above rule. Technological advancements have improvised them over time. In this paper we shall glance at the features. Wind energy is the most popular renewable energy resource thanks to its elastic cost compared with conventional fossil resources. In order to increase the use of wind energy, it is important to develop wind turbine rotor models with high rotation rates and power coefficients. This study aimed at manufacturing highly efficient wind turbine rotor models using NACA profiles. KeywordTechnology, Wind turbine rotors, Wind Energy, Turbine Rotor, NACA profile.
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INTRODUCTION
Wind energy is the most popular renewable energy resource thanks to its elastic cost compared with conventional fossil resources. In line with advancing technology, manufacturing costs are expected to fall below the current level. In Europe, wind energy capacity level for2010 is 40,000MW and that level is ten times higher than that of 2000. Turkey also needs to increase the use of wind energy in order to raise its electricity production capacity to 60GW for 2010.Like Turkey, some countries have clean energy resource blade rying no fossil based energy reserves. However, fossil energy resources such as blade on dioxide pollute the world and they are a threat to future generations. Therefore, utilizing wind energy potential is crucial in global world context. In order to increase the use of wind energy, it is important to develop wind turbine rotor models with high rotation rates and power coefficients. This study aimed at manufacturing highly efficient wind turbine rotor models using NACA profiles. The term rotor refers to blades and rotor as a whole.
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MODEL DIMENSIONS
Scale model of this project is NTK/41 WIND TURBINE. i. Scale ratio 1:120 ii. Model dimensions Rotor Diameter Hub Diameter Blade length No. of blades A. : 340 mm : 60 mm : 140 mm :3
wind turbine dimension 41/TK M41 M35 Blade length No. of blades : Rotor diameter : Hub diameter : 16.8 m :3
As the technology developed, wind turbines were also improved just like the other technologies until recent times and they are continuously evolving. As it was mentioned earlier there are also VAWTs which geometrically differ from HAWTs. The worlds largest horizontal axis wind turbine built on Hawaii Island, manufactured by Boeing Aerospace Industry. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 97.5m and has a rotor swept area of 7,470m 2. Its rated power is 3.2 MW [2]. HAWTs are most preferable wind power machines due to their effectiveness when compared with VAWTs, but VAWTs have some superiorities upon HAWTs. One of them is they do not need any yaw mechanism and their installation is more easy and so their maintenance as well.
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Fig. 1 figure denotes the winglet sketch C. MESHING An inflated boundary of prismatic elements was used near the blade surface to improve spatial resolution and gain a better understanding of boundary layer phenomena. An unstructured mesh with polyhedral elements was used for volume meshing. Simulations were carried out with the turbulence model, coupled with a blend factor of 0.5 for the advection scheme. The computational mesh was constructed automatically using polyhedral cells mesh, surrounded at solid boundaries by three prismatic extrusion layers. Because polyhedral cells fill space more efficiently than tetrahedral elements, fewer cells were required than might otherwise have been needed, significantly aiding the goal of using a small desktop machine to perform such aerodynamic analyses.
Fig. 2 3D view of final polyhedral mesh with volume source visible around the blade
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IMPORTING THE MESH Fluent reads the grid with about 130000 cells from gambit file. Grid Check is sure there is no negative volume or face area and there is no warning of any kind. F. DEFINE THE PHYSICAL MODEL Define the model of Solver is Segregated for Continuity equation is first solved for all cells, then Momentum and then turbulences. This works well for incompressible and moderate compressible flow. Applying the Implicit for each equation is solved for all cells together with actual dates. The implicit solver brings faster convergence. Define the model as 3D and Steady (blade velocity will be constant and we dont Expect instabilities). It is Absolute there is no moving mesh zone in the mesh. Define the Model is Viscous as k-epsilon for a robust and efficient turbulent model which gives good results in most cases where turbulences have an isotropic repartition. Define the model of energy equation. G. SPECIFY MATERIAL PROPERTIES Define the materials is air And it is properties of Density = 1.225 kgm-3 Viscosity= 1.464e-5 kgm-1s-1
Those values correspond to the ICAO norm. Fluent means dynamic viscosity as we consider air as incompressible and are not looking for heat transfer problematic, we dont need to specify properties.
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BOUNDARY CONDITIONS Let the 101325 Pa which corresponds to the ICAO-Norm. Fluent.Blade model is wall with blade (in the field Zone Name).We considers our model as a wind-tunnel model. So the blade is a stationary wall, the viscosity makes the air stick at the blade coachwork, so no slip the coachwork is very smooth, so a roughness of zero. Ceiling of the wind-tunnel and Side wall of the wind-tunnel are specified shear for this will allow the air to slip on the ceiling wall. This is not realistic, but so, we can use a very coarse mesh without boundary layer problems. Velocity is 5 ms-1 in the Speed field. Correspond to 90km/h. and 0.05m in the Roughness Height field. I. PROCESSING Initialize the Compute From-inlet. This will attribute to all cells of the model, the velocity, pressure and turbulences values that we defined for the inlet. Calculate a solution for using corresponding selected condition.Normally we would have to enable better numerical schemes (2nd or 3rd order and run until a much better convergence of the flow solution is reached, but this would take about 3 hours with this case and about 2 weeks with an adequate mesh refinement). So we simply visualize the actual results.
J. FLOW PARAMETERS TAKEN FOR STUDY Seven important results were obtained from the analysis 1. drag force variation along the blade model 2. lift force variation along the blade model 3. Static pressure variation along the blade model 4. Total pressure variation along the blade model 5. Velocity vectors 6. Path line of velocity magnitude variation along the blade model
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The Meshed geometry is analyzed using the given Boundary conditions specified for FLUENT and the variation of flow parameters are plotted and studied. CONTOUR PLOTS (FILLED) FOR MODEL: Pressure coefficient variation of wing
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Fig. 5 Pressure coefficient variation of wing with winglet B. Total Pressure variation of wing
Fig. 6 Total Pressure variation of wing C. Path line of model Pressure coefficient variation of wing
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TABLE 2: RESULT OF WING TURBINE WITH WINDMILL Force vector: (1 0 0) - Drag force Force vector: (0 1 0) - Lift force Wing with winglet Pressure force N Viscous force N Total pressure N
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CONCLUSION
There is no doubt that adding a winglet to the existing blade can change the downwash distribution leading to increased produced power, but a load analysis must be made whether the additional thrust can be afforded. Finally, the effect of pointing the winglet towards the suction side (downstream) was investigated. Based on the above mentioned results the twist distribution form winglet was used and resulted in a slightly improved winglet compared to winglet. But still there is the issue of tower clearance. For comparison a rectangular modification of the original blade tip was designed with the same platform area as the blades with winglets. This modification does produce more power compared to the original blade but not as much as the cambered and twisted winglets. All four upwind pointing winglets do result in lower thrust compared the rectangular blade tip, while the downwind pointing winglet results in comparable or even higher thrust. Based on the present investigation it is seen that winglet has the best overall power performance of the upwind pointing winglets, but the increase in power of around 1.3% for wind speeds larger than 6 m/s is relatively low and must be compared to the increase in thrust of around 1.6%. But pointing the winglet downstream seems to increase the power production even further. The effect of sweep and cant angles is not accounted for in the present investigation and could improve the performance of the winglets even more.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We first thank our GOD, the supreme power for giving us a good knowledge and our parents for making us study in a renowned college We owe a great many thanks to my colleagues and friends for their help and encouragement.
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